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[JTTCOTE1]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I was looking for a book on the secrets of life and death? I read it and still have no reanimatingnyness. I'm a vamp so the zombies are friendly and oddly enough so are the necromancers, so I've no difficulties in coming and going. I've also tried waiting a couple of days. So...what am I missing?

[Keldane]

Only thing I can think of is that it might have been penned by the necromancer, and thus not be where they got their powers from. Search the tower further, and look for a slab instead?

[Larix]

Is your adventurer an elf? Elves can theoretically live forever, thus won't get obsessed with expanding their lives at all costs. They're not familiar enough with death to fully grasp the secrets of Life and Death. Or in game terms - they (and presumably other 'immortal' species like goblins) can't become necromancers, making the reading skill completely pointless for them right now.

[JTTCOTE1]

I am going to kill Toady. Right now.

Well, scrap this legendary-axelord adventurer. Time to start a dwarf character! (I've never actually had armor save my life. So yeah, I just skip it.)

[Larix]

Eh, it's really non-obvious and i was utterly stumped the first time it happened to me.

I find necromancy very much not worth learning. Killing necromancers is much more fun, e.g. by recruiting them as your followers and leading them into a river. The last one standing will actually go and raise her/his companions who drowned first...

[JTTCOTE1]

Necromancy not worth learning?!?!

You apparently don't enjoy having an undead dragon accompany you on your journeys.

[Matoro]

Umm, the secrets aren't in the books. Books are just things to read. The secrets of Life and Death lie in tthe Slab. Usually there is at least one slab in a tower. Read that, not a book. You'll get raport "you learnt secrets of life and death" when you read it. It's immediate.

[Quietust]

Umm, the secrets aren't in the books. Books are just things to read. The secrets of Life and Death lie in tthe Slab. Usually there is at least one slab in a tower. Read that, not a book. You'll get raport "you learnt secrets of life and death" when you read it. It's immediate.

Wrong - you CAN learn the secrets from books as well as from the slab.

[Keldane]

Wrong - you CAN learn the secrets from books as well as from the slab.

Just be careful that the book you're reading is about the secrets of life and death, and not simply life and death. Also that it isn't an essay about a book that contains the secrets of life and death. I'm pretty sure I encountered both of these in a single human fort led by a demon that had written the secret into a book, then went on to be a prolific author writing about the book.